The Ecohydrology Research Group, with support from the Water Institute, presents a full-day research symposium featuring talks by coastal ecologists, watershed model developers, and environmental policy researchers with experience working in Europe and North America.

All members of the public are invited to attend the symposium. Pre-registration is now closed; however, you may still attend. Our information/registration desk will be available from 8:30 until noon at the Ron Eydt Village main entrance (near the front desk and adjacent to the stairs to the Great Hall). Complimentary refreshments will be provided during the morning and afternoon breaks while supplies last.

Program

Location: Great Hall, Ron Eydt Village, University of Waterloo campus

Time

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

9:00-9:30

Philippe Van Cappellen & Mohamed Mohamed

University of Waterloo & Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

Welcome and introduction

Theme I: Coastal eutrophication and hypoxia

9:30-10:15

Patricia Glibert

University of Maryland

Coastal ecology and eutrophication

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-11:15

Don Scavia

University of Michigan

Modeling hypoxia in freshwater and marine coastal environments

Theme II: Watershed biogeochemistry: from regional to global scales

11:15-12:00

Vincent Thieu

Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Coupled nutrient cycles in large European rivers

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-13:45

Arthur Beusen

Utrecht University

Coupling hydrology and biogeochemistry at regional to global scales

13:45-14:30

Richard Alexander

United States Geological Survey

Carbon and nutrient transport across regional and continental scales

14:30-15:15

John Harrison

Washington State University

Current and future estimates of riverine chemical inputs to the global coastal ocean: patterns, causes and consequences

15:15-15:30

Break

Theme III: Ecosystem services and environmental policy

15:30-16:15

Giovanni Bidoglio

Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Using watershed models to map ecosystem services at the ecosystem–water–food–energy nexus

16:15-17:00

Roy Brouwer

University of Waterloo

How can watershed models be designed to be compatible with economic models of decision making?

Where to eat

We will be providing refreshments at 8:30 and during breaks. Note, however, that the REV cafeteria is closed for a catered working lunch with delegates participating in a workshop the following day. Mudie’s, the V1 cafeteria, is a 5 minute walk (**they take cash or Watcard only). The SLC has lunch options as well and is about a 10-minute walk from REV (they take cash & debit).

Where to park

If you are planning to drive, you will want to park in Lot S or V (the pay-and-display parking machine for both lots is located in Lot S; it takes exact cash ($5) or credit card).

To locate the parking lots on the map, click Points of Interest/Visitor Parking on the filter at the left side.